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| Criterion |  Growth Hooked Model |  UX Research Contextual Inquiry |  UX Research Diary Study |  Growth North Star Metric |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | The Hooked Model helps clarify engagement loops, user behavior, and experiments. It makes repeat behavior measurable and captures the result as a hooked loop, trigger map, and reward design. | When work processes are known only from accounts and the real context stays hidden, Contextual Inquiry makes behavior at the workplace visible. Observation and follow-up questions together show how people actually work, get interrupted, and improvise. | When experiences build up over days or weeks and a single session cannot capture them, Diary Study records the course of everyday life. Recurring triggers, moods, and habits become visible this way, beyond the sharpness of memory. | When product teams track many metrics, the view of the actual customer outcome easily gets lost. A North Star Metric bundles growth, usage, and value contribution into one signal that makes the system's direction visible. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | Multiple workshops over several weeks | 1-3 Wochen | 1-4 Wochen | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 4-12 Beobachtungen | 5-20 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Hooked loop, Trigger map, Reward design, Ethics check | Field Notes, Workflow Insights, Pain Points | Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience Timeline | North Star metric, Input metric tree, Measurement cadence |
Tagsno overlap | GrowthBehaviorRetention | UX researchObservationContext | UX researchTrackingBehavior | GrowthMetricsAlignmentRetention |